The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BoULANGER's virtual expulsion from Paris is
not interfering with his favorite amusement Of
tai-twisting
SENATOR VANCE has named his home
"Gombroon,n after the capital of De Quincey's
imaginary kingdom.
Mrs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON attended the
opening session of the Concord Summer Schoo. Of
Philosophy last week.
THE admission of ladies' as fellows" of the
Royal Geographical Society of England has been
conceded by the council in principle
NINE CHRISTINE NILSSON owns two buildings
in Boston that are assessed at 1923. 600. It must
not be supposed that this property was bought
for a song.
Mrs. PARKER, of Dundee. Scotland, the
founder of the British Women's Temperance
Association. is going to take thousand Scotch
women to California to be domestic servants.
GOVERNOR FORAKER. of Ohio, is preparing for
the August number of the Forum an article
setting forth the reasons why in his Judgment
the Republican party should be returned to
power.
PROF E. s. MORSE. Of Salem, Mass, now has
collection of more than four thousand pieces of
Japanese pottery, all historically classified and
representing every era in the development of
the art
PROFESSOR KARL VoGT celebrated his
SEVENTEEN birthday at Geneva on July G. He
has been professor for forty years, and the
students took this occasion to show Their devo-
ton by arranging q grand commers, or beer
and-speech meeting.
MRS. BEEcHER seems unable, since her hus
bands death, to remain in Brooklyn away from
it. Her white and pathetically composed face is
seen among the Plymouth parishiouers every
few weeks. though nominally she is spending
the summer at Stamford.
THE death recently occurred at Washington Of
Miss Anna E. Wayland, last survivor of the six
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the brothers was the late Rev. DR.. Francis Way
land, ir., president of Brown University. She
was for years at the head of school for girls at
Saratoga.
SALT brine is used in Sheffield for hardening
steel. The mixture improves with age and use,
and to such extent that its value is largely
increased. In some cases these tanks fifty
years old, and have q value in proportion to their
age. 1t appears that the constant dipping of the
hot metal into the same solution alters in some
way its character.
COUNT HocHB ERe. manager OF the royal
theaters at Berlin, has just made arrange
ment which might be advantageously copied
elsewhere. He has secured the services of three
well-known artists, Bracht. Dielitz and Heyden.
who are to be consulted with reference to the
scenic arrangements whenever a new opera
play is placed on the stage.
DANIEL. r. WOLFF, of Chambersbure. Pa, lays
claim to being the first commercial traveller
drummer" IN the United States. He went
"on the road" in 1874 for the dry goods and no.
ton house of Dunton, Gemmill & Co. of Phila-
delphia Until 1849 he travelled without sam
pies, securing them from country merchants,
and then filing the orders from samples received
from customers.
THERE is anti treating club in Boston COM
posed mainly OF members of the St Botolph
Club. This anti-treaters are men who models
of hospitality in their own homes. but who frown
upon the growing American habit of treating
bind themselves not to treat one of their number
for the space of year, and they call themselves
1.-THE United Order Little Brothers of ST Bot
olph."
ONE of the most successful among the women
of the United States is Miss Mary T;llinghast,
who has made a business of decorative art.
Vanderbilt once paid her 5000 for inventing
new species of tapestry hangings for his house.
She also supplied the designs for the stained
glass window Just erected. representing Jacobs
dream, in Grace Church, New York. No piece
of cathedral art had ever before been instructed
in the States a woman. but her designs were
so obviously the best that precedent es-
Ia blshed
Mrs. ANDREW MEYER, whose husband is a
farmer Mexico. Mo-. is natural surgeon.
The other day q vicious horse attacked her hus
band, and tore off part of his scalp portion of
the left cheek, and piece of the upper lip. A
doctor was sent for, but Mrs Meyer fearing the
wounds would be difficult TO dress If she waited.
proceeded to do the work herself. The cheek
was sawed mp with a common needle and black
thread She also took several stitches in the
lip. When she came TO the scalp she found il